Chords for Another Easy Acoustic Blues Lick in E

_ _ _ _ Okay, so here's micro lick number three.
A quick recap, micro lick number one is the
train whistle lick, and it gets its name from this classic bluesy sound here in the train
whistle [Em] position.
So go back and check out micro lick number one's video lesson if you
haven't gotten that one down, because we're going to start building on it in the next
[G] lesson.
And then we've had micro lick number two, which is this cool move called hammering
third, [E] _ [Gm] and we're making use of the minor third to major third move, [G#] _
which is a super
bluesy [F#] move, just a simple two note thing, but when it happens you know you're playing
the blues.
[E] _ So that's micro lick number two, and again you can go back and check out that
video to show you note for note what that lick is about.
And then we're going to [G] introduce
today micro lick number three, which is another simple four note deal that we're going to
work in the key of E.
So here's the lick.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so what I'm doing is I'm hitting the
open E, _ then I'm putting my third finger on the third fret on [G#] the second string, [D] _ _ [Gm] _ [D] and I'm
going to [Gm] bend that up slightly, one of those bluesy quarter note, quarter bends, not quarter
note, [E] but quarter bends.
_ _ And then at the top of the bend I'm going to hit my open E again,
[Em] pick up my third finger and hit the B open, _ _ [E] and play it with that rhythm. _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ Alright, and
let's put it in context of [G#] a twelve bar shuffle.
We'll do just the E part so you can hear what's
going [E] on. _ _
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_ Okay, and I know usually [Em] when I play finger style guitar [G] I like to use these
three fingers for these top strings, but what I do when I slip into this lick a lot to get
it going really nice and quick is I'll do a thumb and [E] forefinger move.
Which really
speaks to the point, do what's comfortable for you.
I mean this is classical, you know,
proper fingering for your right hand on the strings to finger pick, but I say don't pay
any attention to that.
If that works for you, great, go for it.
But if what's comfortable
is a one finger, the trigger finger approach like an Ed or Baker type deal where you're
just thumb and forefinger, you know, go for it.
Whatever works for you, whatever allows
you to grab those notes.
So I'm breaking the rules here and I'm coming down and I'm going
to do thumb and forefinger on this micro lick number three. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
Alright, so that's micro lick
number three.
Stay tuned and we're going to put those three licks together into a longer
lick and show you how you can mix and match and change up the phrasing a little bit to
build your own licks based off of these blues staples. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _